"In the Shadow of Death"

We follow the Elsner family of Stuttgart from the nineteen thirties as the Holocaust evolves from the disturbing new policies of the Third Reich into the horrifying attempt to annihilate an entire race.

Jewish culture and property was demolished and dumped like refuse. Jewish fathers and mothers, sons and daughters were slaughtered and incinerated like animal carcasses. There was no safe harbour anywhere in the world for these innocent victims.

Stephen Puddle, a young New Zealander drawn to the subject of the Holocaust by his humanity and a pure Christian heart, set out to learn all he could about this travesty of history. Through the combined mediums of traditional theatre, narration, film, dance and music, Mr. Puddle created this soulful and enlightening docudrama that will guide you through an emotional mine field to a safe harbour of sanity, hope and courage and onward to the present where antisemitism is once again on the rise while the world, once again, stands by in blind silence.

" A profound, moving and unique approach to a topic of deep concern that each of us must confront"

"As long as there are writers like Stephen Puddle the lessons of the Holocaust will serve to make this a better world"

"I can't recall any Holocaust related theatre event that had a greater emotional impact on an audience in one evening than this"